FIAT 500C - Headlights not working

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Sun 4 May 2014 23:03
FIAT 500C - Headlights not working - gazmug

When i try to switch on the main headlights the parking lights come on. When i switch on the main beam it activates in the parking light. The main lights do not come on at all. The front fog lights work OK.

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Sun 4 May 2014 23:53
FIAT 500C - Headlights not working - elekie&a/c doctor
Could be 2 blown bulbs.
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Mon 5 May 2014 08:53
FIAT 500C - Headlights not working - gazmug
Agreed, but why is the main beam working off the parking lights and the parking lights are on all the time the engine is running?
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Mon 5 May 2014 09:57
FIAT 500C - Headlights not working - gordonbennet

Parking lights, do you mean those extra bright lights that are on permanently, bit like foglights that Fiat stuck randomly on the 500...DRL's of some sort, apparently you can turn them off somewhere within the menu.

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Wed 7 May 2014 09:08
FIAT 500C - Headlights not working - gazmug

All sorted. It was one blown headlight that clearly impacted both headlights. Changed both and I'm back in the game!

It didnt help that the car was supplied with a Panda handbook so what the Panda handbook referred to as parking lights are the 'All Day' lights on my version of the 500 and the main beam is situated not with the headlight but with the All Day light!! There also appears to be loads of slightly different versions of the 500 because the YouTube videos and online handbooks i found seem to all have slightly different versions of the headlight fittings to mine!

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